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1830–1886

REFUGE.

Emily Dickinson

The clouds their backs together laid, The north begun to push, The forests galloped till they fell, The lightning skipped like mice;

The thunder crumbled like a stuff — How good to be safe in tombs, Where nature's temper cannot reach, Nor vengeance ever comes!

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